Top 10 Indie Albums of the 2000s

InsertNameHere

The Top Ten

1 Funeral - Arcade Fire

Best songs - Neighborhood 1, Wake Up, Rebellion (Lies) - InsertNameHere

One of the most powerful Albums ever made.

Best album ever made - jonathanhlu

2 Is This It - The Strokes

The album that brought swagger to rock, not a bad track on the album, and the most influential album of the decade. - cwebb01

I voted for Funeral but this album saved rock - jonathanhlu

V 1 Comment
3 Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys

Best songs - I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor, Mardy Bum, Fake Tales of San Fransisco - InsertNameHere

V 1 Comment
4 The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse

The best Indie album ever made, it is classic in the music genre of Indie rock.

Best songs - Gravity Rides Everything, Tiny Cities Made of Ashes, 3rd Planet - InsertNameHere

V 2 Comments
5 Turn on the Bright Lights - Interpol

Just about every song on this album is worth your time... for me the weakest track is NYC but tons of people love it, so who knows. I love pretty much every track on this album. Amazing first album for a band that is still growing. I wish everyone could give this album another listen.

Easily one of the best album ever. So underrated.

Best songs - PDA, Obstacle 1, Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down - InsertNameHere

6 Hot Fuss - The Killers
7 Elephant - The White Stripes

I voted for this just because 7 nation army

8 Oracular Spectacular - MGMT

Best songs - Electric Feel, Kids, The Youth

9 Tourist History - Two Door Cinema Club V 1 Comment
10 A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation - The Wombats

Best songs - Moving To New York, Kill The Director, Let's Dance To Joy Division, Backfire At The Disco.

V 1 Comment

The Newcomers

? You're Gonna Miss It All - Modern Baseball

The Contenders

11 White Blood Cells - The White Stripes

Best album of the 2000s by far

12 Illinoise - Sufjan Stevens

I haven't heard all the other albums in the top ten and I love arctic monkeys and modest mouse, but this is close to my favourite album of all time. I can't think of a weak spot, his voice is beautiful and he is a brilliant instrumentalist.

Best songs - Chicago, Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Illinois Highland, Come On! Feel the Illinoise! - InsertNameHere

V 1 Comment
13 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

Best songs - Take Me Out, This Fire, Darts of Pleasure - InsertNameHere

14 Silent Alarm - Bloc Party
15 Kid A - Radiohead

If you count this as indie. It's definitely number 1

16 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

Just a great album that becomes better every time you listen to it.

Best songs - White Winter Hymnal, Ragged Wood, He Doesn't Know Why - InsertNameHere

17 Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective

Best songs - My Girls, In the Flowers, Summertime Clothes - InsertNameHere

18 Return to Cookie Mountain - TV On the Radio

Best songs - Wolf Like Me, Province, Let the Devil In - InsertNameHere

19 Oh, Inverted World - The Shins
20 Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie

Best songs - Title and Registration, Transatlanticism, We Looked Like Giants

BAdd New Item
7129

Recommended Lists

Featured
Popular
Latest

Related Lists

Top 10 Rock Albums of the 2000s Greatest Metal Albums of the 2000s Top 10 Rap Albums of the 2000s Top 10 Most Overrated 90s and 2000s Albums Best Albums of the Second Half of the 2000s (2005-2009)

List StatsUpdated 24 Sep 2017

100 votes
34 listings
6 years, 156 days old

Top Remixes

1. The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse
2. Is This It - The Strokes
3. Elephant - The White Stripes
Quart
1. Oracular Spectacular - MGMT
2. Tourist History - Two Door Cinema Club
3. Is This It - The Strokes
PeterG28

WRemix

Posts

Add Post

Error Reporting

See a factual error in these listings? Report it here.
P